Printed tapestry



B. A. STROOCK PRINTED TAPESTRY v Nov. 13 1923.

Filed Jan. 2, 1925 K. Eva mm B. MI WI In i 6 I: I a. Inventor flul/aAttorneys Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

IBEBTBAH A. STBOOCK, 0J5 NEWBUBGH, NEW YORK.

PRINTED TAPESTBY.

Application filed January 2, 1923. Serial No. 610,826.

To all wk om it may concern:

Be it known that I, BERTRAM A. STROOCK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newburgh, in the county of Orange and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printed Tapestries,of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to the productlon of a fabric giving theeffect of handwoven tapestry or needle point, which fabric is producedby printing the desired design on a plain fabric which is of specialweave, so that by the combination of this special weave and theprinting, the desired effect ma be produced.

s is well understood, hand-woven tapestries and needle point are made byworkin the design in roperly colored yarns, whic yarns are held in placeeither by a previously woven fabric or by strands in the natureof awarp. This is done in such manner as to produce the design on thesurface of the tapestry with ste ped lines instead of straight or curvedines, at the margins of the figures of the design. By my presentinvention, I produce tapestry effects similar to those produced by t. ehand-weaving or needle point methods without the time and expenseinvolved in the hand method.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan, on an en arged scale, ofa ortion of an illustrative form of lain fabric which I may use as abase for t e printed tapestry; Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of ig.1; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a planof a ortion of the printed tapestry showing t e efiect produced.

Like reference characters indicate like parts in the several views.

In producing the plain fabric which is to be used as a base for theprint' to produce the tapestry efiect, I prefera ly use the weaveillustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, in which relatively heavy, soft,loose-twisted yarn filler strands 10, preferably of wool, are heldbetween interwoven fine, hard-twisted filler strands 11 and fine,hard-twisted warp strands 12 and 13. The warp strands 12 and 13 passrespectively below and above the filler strands 10 and above and belowthe intermediate filler strands 11, so that each warp strand 13, forinstance, passes over each filler strand 10.

The warp strands 13 are spaced apart a peculiar stepped distanceapproximating the diameter of the soft filler strands 10 and preferablythe warp strands 12 are similarly spaced. The warp strands 12 and 13 aredrawn down into the body of the filler strands 10, so that a series ofsquares are formed on the surface of the fabric, each square beingdetermined by the space between a pair of warp strands 13 and a pair ofintermediate filler strands 11. In Fig. 2, the warp strands 13 are showndrawn down into the body of the strands 10 and the undulations reducedin these strands by the warp strand; are shown best in Fig. 3. It willbe noted by reference to Fig. 3 that not only is the surface of thefabric formed into squares, but the soft yarn constituting the strands10 is ushed up into small projections between each pair of warp strands.The formation of these projections or mounds is accentuated by thetension on the warp strands on the opposite side of the fabric.

In some tapestry efiects which I have produ'ced, the plain fabric iswoven with the strands 11, 12 and 13 in black cotton yarn, and the softstrands 10 in wool having some suitable body or background color, whichcolor may be the original color of the yarn or may be obtained by dyeingthe fabric after it is woven.

The next step in the production of the tapestry efi'ect is the printing.This may be carried out in the usual manner of printing on fabrics, asby means of blocks, each arranged to give the desired outline in thedesired colors, and I have found that no great care need be used inapplying the colors to the fabric in order to produce the formation ofthe lines of the design as such lines appear in handwoven tapestries andneedle point, and as is shown in Fig. 4. This is due to the fact thatthe small squares formed in the soft, loose-twisted strands 10 absorbthe ink readily, but that the running of this ink in these strands stopsat the lines at which a strand 10 is compressed by warp'strands, or, inother .words, at the edges of the squares. Consequently, if blockprinting is used, for instance, and the edge of the printing blockstrikes any portion of one of the squares, that square tends to becomecompletely colored, but, on the other hand, the coloring from thatsquare does not run into an ad acent square. Conse%1ently the steppedefi'ect indicated at 14 in ig. 4 will be produced, no matter how thelines on the printing surface or the like reg sters with the squares ofthe fabric. It will be understood, of I course, that 1n ractice, thestepped appearance of the lines is not as exact nor as complete as itwould be in hand-woven tapestries or needle point, but such steppingoccurs with suficient regularity in my fabric to give the general ap--pearance o hand-woven tapestry or needle point.

ll claim:

1. A fabric having the appearance of hand-woven tapestry or needlepoint, comprising interwoven fine, hard-twisted warp strands andalternate fine, hard-twisted and heavy, loose-twisted filling strands,with the heavy filling strands dividedinto squares by the warp strandsand with the heavy strands projecting above the warp strands betweeneach pair thereof on the same side of the fabric, said fabric having adesi printed on the projecting portions of t e heavy filling strandswith the lines of the design following approximately the boundaries ofsaid squares.

2. A fabric having the appearance of hand-woven tapestry or needlepoint, comprising interwoven fine, hard-twisted warp strands and heavy,loose-twisted filling strands, with the hea filling strands divided intosquares by t e warp strands and with the heavy strands projecting abovethe warp strands between each pair thereof on the same side of thefabric, said fabric having a design printed on the projecting portion ofthe heavy filling strands with the lines of the design followingapproximately the boundaries of said squares. I

3. A fabric having the appearance of hand-woven tapestry or needlepoint, comprising interwoven fine, hard-twisted warp acre-nan strandsand alternate fine, hard-twisted and heavy, loose-twisted fillinstrands, the warp strands passing over t e heavy filling strands andunder-the fine filling strands and being drawn down into the heavyfilling'strand to produce projections of the heavy fillin strandsbetween each pair of warp stran s on the same side of the fabric, andthe warp strands on the same side of the fabric being spaced apart adistance equal approximately to the diameter of the heavy fillingstrands, said fabric having a design printed on the projecting portionsof the heavy fillin the design fol owing approximately the boundaries ofsaid pro ections.

t -A fabric adapted to be used in the production of printed tapestry orneedle point, comprising interwoven fine, hardtwisted warp strands andheavy, loosetwisted filling strands, with the warp strands passing overthe heavy filling strands and spaced apart approximately the diameter ofthe heavy strands to form squares on the surface of the fabric and withthe'heavy strands projecting above the warp strands between each pairthereof. 5. A fabric adapted to be used in the production of printedtapestry or needle point, comprising interwoven fine,v hard-twisted warpstrands and alternate heavy, loosetwisted and fine, herd-twisted fillingstrands, with the warp strand passing over the heavy filling strands andunder the fine fillin strands and spaced apart approximate y thediameter of the heavy strands to a form s uares on the surface of thefabric and with the heavy strands projecting above the warp strandsbetween each pair thereof.

BER'ELRAE/l A. STRGQGK.

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